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I was pregnant with my second child, my son, when I started feeling depressed. I was in my second trimester and I felt like I was at the bottom of a deep well, drowning. At one point, I took a whole week off work, because I couldn’t drag myself out of bed. I made detailed [...]
I need your help lovelies. I’m in a right pickle. I have been struggling with mood changes since I was 16/17 year old but I seem to get worse randomly. I suddenly snap from happy to sad, happy to angry then happy to suicidal. I have very high periods of being happy, where nothing can [...]
Depression is not just being sad, sad is rational, often short-lived and does not usually overwhelm your entire being for weeks on end. What does depression feel like? Depression is far more than just being sad. In my experience there is no emotional state that is worse than depression. It’s like some kind of chemical imbalance [...]
Today I was asked “So how do you get depression?” From a mum who is feeling rather frustrated and angry as she believed she was a strong person and had never thought she would ever fall victim again after suffering with postnatal depression in the past. Here we take a look at some of [...]
My daughter is depressed. I’ve had it! I’ve had enough of the state and the government agenda. My 17 yr-old daughter is in the hospital fighting depression, anxiety and trauma over what happened to me in 2006. Because I was falsely accused and wrongly convicted of a crime I never committed, my daughter suffers. I’m beyond [...]
A negative attitude is somewhat contagious and if you spend time with someone who is constantly negative then you too will start to feel this way. It feels as if those we spend time with affect how we feel. But that’s not true really. You have full control over how you feel. I had [...]
I got into a relationship at 16 years old with a family friend that I had a crush on since primary school, he was the best boyfriend ever. He would spoil me and we would spend all day together. We moved into together. We renovated everything, bought furniture together, got a puppy. I started a [...]
Jeez when did Twitter become a bloody mortuary? I think I may have followed far too many suicidal tweens or teens. I say tweens as I have just been chatting to a rather extraordinarily good writer who informed she was 12. I am sad and somewhat worried at the amount of young girls who take [...]
I am lucky in a lot of ways. I grew up in a loving home where I was always encouraged to aim high and follow my own path, but I was also very, well different. I’ve always been shy and starting from about age 6 I was bullied a lot – so much I had [...]
Q; Over the last 10 years since I was 14, I’ve been struggling with severe depression. I have been on several medications, having counselling, CBT, taken time off and travelled overseas to hope I could leave it behind. Nothing works. My problem is that nobody has any idea that this has been going on and [...]
The girl you’re looking at has a smile on her face; to you she seems happy, carefree and never looks down, saddened or lonely. But that’s just a front she is putting on, she’s dying inside, she is struggling to take a day at a time. You see a duck on the water so graceful [...]
I have been depressed on and off ever since my early teens. At just-about-27 now, it’s something that I am fairly used to coming and going, however strange that might sound. But what if I told you that the ultimate cause of my depression might have been down to food, nutritious food, which I happily [...]
I can’t think straight most days. Too many thoughts, too many things to do in too many different corners of my life. Everything gets jumbled, scattered and in disarray. I try lists but I loose them, I use google calendar and it’s a tremendous help when I can remember to write down the information on [...]
It has taken me years to recognise that as a child (and then as a teen and then as an adult) I suffered recurring bouts of depression. I think the thing was that I never did any of the ‘classic’ cries for help – I didn’t truant, I didn’t do drugs or alcohol, I didn’t [...]
Is depression a disability? I believe it is. Any condition either a physical or mental one that prevents a person from doing normal day to day tasks is a disability in my eyes. What is a disability? It is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. There are various [...]
I have had a person* say to me that “I was selfish and it was all about me” when I was in the depth of a depressive low mood, does depression make you selfish? I think it does. When you are depressed you can barely take care of yourself let alone others, just surviving a [...]
I have suffered with depression since the age of 13, does depression ever go away? I don’t personally believe it does, not completely; more that it sits in the background waiting to strike again. While I now suffer bipolar depressive moods, it does have some similarities to what you expect with depression. It still [...]
Depression is not just something that adults suffer from; depression in children is just as common yet rarely spoken about. Children like adults have a certain way of coping and while some children cope with stressful situations more than others, when that boundary is crossed they find themselves losing control of their normal everyday [...]
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